-RBA
*Minnesota
*Minnesota Statewide
*December 2, 2011
*MNST1112.02

-Birds mentioned
California Gull
Snowy Owl
Short-eared Owl
Winter Wren
Townsend's Solitaire
Summer Tanager
-Transcript

Hotline: Minnesota Statewide
Date: December 2, 2011
Sponsor: Minnesota Ornithologists' Union (MOU) http://moumn.org
Reports: (763) 780-8890
Compiler: Anthony Hertzel ([log in to unmask]) 

This is the Minnesota Birding Report for December 1st, 2011.

On November 25th, Chad Heins reported a possible adult CALIFORNIA GULL
at Gilfillin Lake in northeastern Blue Earth County and what may have
been the same bird on the south side of Eagle Lake in Blue Earth County
on the 29th.

A SNOWY OWL was reported on the Swift-Big Stone county line on November
29th in a field south of state highway 7 between Appleton and Correll.
In northwestern Minnesota, Snowys were reported along Marshall County
Road 36 just east of Audubon Center; three miles north and one mile west
of Radium on Marshall County Road 14; seven miles north of Red Lake
Falls in Red Lake County on state highway 32; at the intersection of
Marshall County Road 6 and 350th Avenue NW; and in Kittson County south
of Hallock at the junction of 450th NW and county road 7.

Lars Benson found a SHORT-EARED OWL on the 29th at the restored prairie
at St. Johns University in Collegeville, Stearns County. This is on the
south side of county road 159 just west of I-94.

On November 30th, Bruce Baer found a WINTER WREN in the brush behind the
kiosk at the Bass Ponds area of Bloomington, Hennepin County.

A SUMMER TANAGER is still being seen at the Carpenter Nature Center in
Hastings, Washington County. The nature center is located at 12805 Saint
Croix Trail. John Zakelj found a TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE there on the 27th
in a tree near the Bluff Trail. On the 29th, Al Schirmacher reported
three TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRES in Sherburne County near the Ann Lake/Sand
Dunes campground. Take U.S. Highway 169 to Sherburne County Road 4, then
west to county road 5. Turn south and where county road 4 turns west, go
east on the dirt road to the first small parking lot on the right.

The next scheduled update of this tape is December 8th, 2011.